Morning Edition: Changes In Genome Functioning For Orphans

  
New study from a Yale team focusing on Russian orphanages.






  

    

      
By Where We Live - WNPR

      
Published: Dec 08, 2011

    

    

                   
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Explaining Dipping Sticks to Russian Orphans 
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Morning Edition: Changes In Genome Functioning For Orphans
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	A new online report in the current issue of Development and Psychopathology indicates that the stress orphaned children experience being separated at birth actually changes their genome functioning. Joining us by phone is the lead author of the report Elena Girorenko, she is an associate professor at the Yale Child Study Center.

    



  
 
  

    

      

                        
              

            

 
        

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